| Force: Penguin Dictionary of Science -
07-03-2007, 12:44 AM
"Force:
An external agency capable of altering the state of rest or motion in a body; measured in newtons (SI units), dynes (c.g.s. units), or poundals (f.p.s. units). The force, F, required to produce an acceleration, a, in a mass, m, is given by F=ma. If m is in kilograms, a in metres per sec. per sec., F will be in newtons."
Regards,
- RP
(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words. "All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus "Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein "Particles give me a headache." - Ibid |